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bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed"
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed" |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:38:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> Almost any search in the attached fileset will fail in this way if you
>>> repeat it enough times. Is the texi ill-formed?
>>
>> Yes, it's ill-formed.
>>
>> `Info-search' expects that "^_\nIndirect:" is preceded by a newline in
>> std.info,
>> so it fails trying to call (search-forward "\n\^_\nIndirect:").
>
> Amazing. It's the direct output of makeinfo, so I can't understand why
> the newline would be missing and expected.
makeinfo prepends some boilerplate to its output in every Info file
that at least begins with a line like:
This is std.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from std.texi.
so there is always a newline before ^_Indirect: